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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF
AMERICAS DAY (IPAD) (formerly Columbus Day) NEWSLETTER. Monday, October 12, 2015.
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Contents Indigenous
People of the Americas DAY (IPAD), October 12, 2015
University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR Events
University of Arkansas Mullins Library Collection and New
UA Indigenous Studies Program
Walter
Echo-Hawk, UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Transform
Columbus Day http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/
Reviews of
Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’
History of the United
States
States
Publisher’s Summary (Beacon Press)
Dick,
Dunbar-0rtiz’s Case, Introduction and Chapters
Steiner Interviews Author
Democracy Now, End Columbus Day
The Movement is
Growing
Seattle
Albuquerque
Minneapolis
Scialabba
Exposes Krauthammer
Wilbur’s Photos
of Native Americans
Rebel Music, Rock ‘N Roll from Native American
Heartland
Monday, October 12, 2015 Indigenous Peoples of
the Americas Day Observation SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
10:00-11:00 a.m. Student/Faculty
Readings from Historical & Contemporary Native American Writers ARKU
Connections Lounge
11:00-12:00 p.m. Commemorative
Walk to Trail of Tears Marker With Special Guest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr.
Rigoberta Menchú Leave from ARKU Mall / Walk to Stadium Drive & M.L.K. Blvd
Sponsored by: Native American Symposium Committee, Native American Student
Association, Latin American and Latino Studies, City of Fayetteville, Center
for Multicultural and Diversity Education, and the UofA Chapter of the OMNI
Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
Attachments
UNIVERSITY OF
ARKANSAS, MULLINS LIBRARY HAS AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON NATIVE
AMERICAN
some of which
were donated by Dick Bennett and the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and
Ecology
Here’s a small
sample.
Bullard, Confronting Environmental Racism
Churchill, Indians Are Us?
Johnson, The Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Skogen, Indian Depredation Claims
UofA NEW PROGRAM
ON NATIVE AMERICANS
AN INDIGENOUS STUDIES
PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Continuity with the
Indigenous Ozarks, Connection with the Indigenous World
Dear Colleagues:
Please find attached a poster to announce the new Indigenous Studies
minor. Share it with
all students and allies! Thank you for making this happen.
All the Best,
Attachments area
Proposed by
Sean Teuton, Associate Professor of English
INDIGENOUS
STUDIES: Since the 1970s, universities and colleges nationwide have found in
Native American Studies a powerful source of campus diversity, student and
faculty recruitment, and education and research on Indigenous peoples.
INDIGENOUS
STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS : Rich in Indigenous history, neighboring
today’s Native American communities, and resting at the heart of the continent,
the University of
Arkansas University
of Arkansas
THE “IS” MINOR:
The Indigenous Studies or “IS” minor seeks “continuity and connection” with
Indigenous worlds. We promote continuity when we investigate the
longstanding presence of Native American communities in the Ozarks; we build connection when we extend this
continuity to reach the broader world.
“IS” affirms these Indigenous realities.
Students would be required to complete (3) courses, one from each of
three core groups: Culture, History, and Literature. Students then complete (2) elective courses
from any group for a total of (5) courses or (15) credits.
FACULTY: Across
the disciplines, seventeen or more distinguished members of the faculty express
interest in affiliating with and teaching courses in the IS program, combined
numbering over thirty courses. Each
faculty member plans to teach a course on a regular basis yet not so frequently
as to stress departmental curricular needs.
RESOURCES: Few
resources are needed to establish the IS minor, as existing faculty members
wish to teach cross-listed courses within the curriculum to support the
minor. While the minor will clearly
support Native American student recruitment, a centrally-placed IS program
space would ensure a sense of belonging at the University of Arkansas Oklahoma
TIMELINE:
Faculty members wishing to teach in the IS minor already have met to form an
advisory committee, and key members plan to seek interest and support from
their home departments. Members of the
advisory committee wish formally to propose the IS minor in spring 2014 with
hopes of offering the minor fall 2015.
UN
DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (UNDRIP)
Walter
Echo-Hawk. “Think Globally, Act
Tribally: A UN Declaration Provides the Framework for Native
Self-determination.” In These Times (May 2014).
www.walterechohawk.com/?page=events
"Think Globally, Act Tribally" by Walter Echo-Hawk. University of Arizona ... "U.N. investigator visits
Tulsa, hears tribal concerns" by Dana Attocknie. Tulsa World.
inthesetimes.com/article/16573/think_globally_act_tribally
Apr 24, 2014 - Think Globally, Act Tribally. A UN declaration provides the framework for Native
self-determination. BY Walter R. Echo-Hawk ...
inthesetimes.com/community/profile/322032Walter R. Echo-Hawk is a member of
the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and works as an attorney, law professor, tribal judge, author
... Think Globally, Act Tribally.
TRANSFORM
COLUMBUS DAY
2011 http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/
[The web site may
seem out of date with latest reference to 2011, but the group has a full-page
ad in the Sept. 2015 number of Z
Magazine. –Dick]
Thanks to
everyone who came out with us and protested the celebration of genocide.
Before Columbus
sailed the Atlantic, he was a slave trader for the Portuguese, transporting
West African people to Portugal to be sold as slaves. The Columbus legacy is
steeped in blood, violence, and death.
Why Transform Columbus Day?
The Transform
Columbus Day Alliance actively rejects the celebration of Christopher Columbus
and his legacy of domination, oppression, and colonialism. We also reject
historical misconceptions regarding Columbus and his "discovery" of
the Americas.
By saying NO to
Columbus and his day we are saying YES to a new future of mutual respect,
collaboration, and equality,
a future that
respects
=the rights of
indigenous peoples
=the natural
environment
=democratic
& economic justice
=gender equity
over global patriarchy
=free and equal
speech over hate speech
Subscribe to
tcd-news http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/
enter email
address
Subscribe
Join us as the
struggle continues.
COLUMBUS DAY
WAS BORN IN COLORADO IN 1907
RESPECT *
DECENCY * JUSTICE
TCD 2011 2011 Columbus Day Parade Protest
Saturday
October 8th, 2011
Themes
"Transform
Columbus Day - Create a Respectful Future"
"No
parades for Indian-Killers" "No Celebrations of Genocide"
Transform
Columbus Day Alliance Principles http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/
Transform
Columbus Day!
CHALLENGE THE
ROOTS OF RACISM IN AMERICA
Columbus is
responsible for the murder of millions of indigenous people.
Columbus was a
slavetrader in Africa before invading America. He began the slave trade in the
Americas. He deserves no holiday, no parades, no statues.
Columbus Day
celebrates the doctrine of discovery – the legal process that stole Indian
people's territories, and that continues today.
Columbus
brought a philosophy of domination to the Americas that persists today –
domination of other peoples, domination of the environment, domination of other
belief systems, domination of women by men.
Transform
Columbus Day Alliance
2011 News and
Updates
Thanks to
everyone who came out in the rain and snow and protested the celebration of
genocide. Check out the Transform Columbus Day Denver Facebook page for photos
and updates. More will be posted on this site soon.
Occupy Denver
has adopted the Indigenous Platform proposed by Colorado AIM and supported by
the TCD Alliance. Read the article on Westword.
http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/
Transform Columbus Day Alliance 2007
Blog
The tcda blog (www.tcda07.blogspot.com ) was created
as a place to share experiences and information from the Columbus Day
confrontation. You can post your story either as a comment (which can be as
lengthy as you like, of course) or by sending it to Carol Berry ( chickasaw303@
yahoo.com ) who will post the narrative
for you.
Articles and Links (will open in a new
window) http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/
Democracy Now:
Challenging Columbus Day
Robert
Robideau: The Myth Keepers of Columbus (CounterPunch)
Dustin Craun:
It's always 1492 until we change things (Colorado Daily)
Art patrons may
discover Columbus parade, protest (Rocky Mountain News)
Protesters camp
on eve of parade (Rocky Mountain News)
Protest vowed
for Columbus Day fete (Denver Post)
Ft. Carson Color
Guard leads Columbus Day parade (UCD Advo
AN
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz. Beacon P, 2014.
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The first history of the United States
told from the perspective of indigenous peoples
Today in the United States, there are
more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising
nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people
who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US
settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the
first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a
history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples
and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of
the US empire.
In An
Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly
challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against
the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of
the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz
reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James
Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and
the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under
President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army
general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can
be rid of them only by exterminating them.”
Spanning more than four hundred years,
this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and
explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
Introduction, Chapters
by Dick Bennett
What is this history
about?
The
book chronicles a classic case of imperialism and “a particular form of
colonialism—settler colonialism” and its genocidal consequences. “The history of the United States is a
history of settler colonialism—the founding of a state based on the ideology of
white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of
genocide and land theft” (p.2).
What does it seek to
counteract?
The
indoctrination of generation after generation of the US public to “embrace. . .
settler colonialism and genocide.” The
“myth persists” because of a general
failure “to ask questions that challenge the core of the scripted narrative of
the origin story.”
What is the “central
question this book pursues”?
“How might acknowledging the reality of US
history work to transform society?”
Engaged in later chapters.
Related, subordinate
questions the book examines? (Probably
at least a dozen stated in this short Introduction: here are a few.)
The real, main motive for the colonies
pursuing independence? Greed for land and
wealth. It was first revealed legally
by the 1787 Northwest Ordinance that provided “the blueprint for gobbling up
the British-protected Indian Territory” (p. 3).
What myths have become doctrine and dogma and
are used to justify motive and Ordinance?
Columbus
(p. 4) and “Manifest Destiny,” the “Doctrine of Discovery” and the Monroe
Doctrine.
Why are many traditional histories of the
US flawed? They masked unjust,
brutal reality “with justifications and rationalizations—in short, apologies for
one-sided robbery and murder” (p. 5). “…the
source of the problems has been the refusal or inability of US historians to
comprehend the nature of their own history, US history. The fundamental problem is the absence of the
colonial framework” (p. 7).
How have some commentators used multiculturalism
consciously or unconsciously to reinforce the traditional, non-Native
histories? It is “an insidious
smoke screen meant to obscure the fact that the very existence of the country
is a result of the looting of an entire continent and its resources.”
How did
settler-colonialism/imperialism work? (pp. 6-10)? “The form of colonialism that the indigenous
people of North America have experienced was modern from the beginning: the expansion of European corporations,
backed by government armies. . .with subsequent expropriation of lands and
resources.” “[That] is a genocidal
policy” (p. 6). “Settler
colonialism…requires violence or the threat of violence to attain its
goals. People do not hand over their
land, resources, children, and futures without a fight, and that fight is met
with violence. . . .Euro-American colonialism, an aspect of the capitalist
economic globalization, had from its beginnings a genocidal tendency.” (p. 8).
Why is the N. American
settler-colonialism genocidal?
All
five acts of genocide as described in the 1948 UN convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide were committed (p. 8). “From the colonial period to the founding of
the United States and continuing into the twenty-first century, this has
entailed torture, terror, sexual abuse, massacres, systematic military
occupations, removals. . . . The absence of even the slightest note of regret
or tragedy in the annual celebration of the US independence betrays a deep
disconnect in the consciousness of US Americans” (p. 9).
Was genocide a
deliberate, documented national policy, comparable to that of the Nazis against
the European Jews during WWII? “Documented policies of
genocide on the part of US administrations can be identified in at least four
distinct periods: the Jacksonian era of
forced removal [chapter 6]; the California gold rush in Northern California [Ch
7]; the post-Civil War era of the so-called Indian wars in the Great Plains
[Ch. 8]; and the 1950s termination period [Ch. 9].” Settler-colonialism is in general however not
comparable to the Nazi “Final Solution” signed at Wansee in that the
extermination was grassroots—the constant pressure of the expanding European
population against the mainly farming Indians for land, a pressure defended by
the US military and other institutions, especially by the reservation system
following military action. Sometimes an
Indian nation would accept the attenuation of their domain “in exchange for US
government protection from settlers” (p. 11).
The process continued through the twentieth century. Exploitation of Indigenous lands “by the
largest corporations…could spell a final demise for Indigenous land bases and
resources” (p. 10). “’in 1881, Indian
landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres
remained. . . .By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent
of its original size” (pp. 11-12).
Did the Indigenous
nations and communities resist? “The objective of US
colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples. . . .This
is the very definition of modern genocide. . .”
But they “have from the beginning resisted modern colonialism using both
defensive and offensive techniques. . . . In every instance they have fought
for survival as people.” (p. 6).
How might this
relentless chauvinistic expansion finally be stopped? The increase of civil
rights for colored peoples and women is a hopeful sign, but no guarantee for
Indians. Telling the true history of the
nation is the author’s protest. This book attempts to tell the story of
the United States as a colonialist settler-state, one that, like colonialist
European states, crushed and subjugated the original civilizations in the
territories it now rules” (p. 14).
Is there a connection
between the imperial conquest of the Native Americans and the modern history of
US interventions and invasions of over forty sovereign nations since 1945. “Perhaps it was inevitable that the earlier
wars against Indigenous peoples, if not acknowledged and repudiated, ultimately
would include the world” (p. 12).
Memory!
Chapter
1, Follow the Corn
There
were many well-developed civilizations in the Western Hemisphere before the
European invasion, which devastated them all.
Chapter
2, Culture of Conquest
Militarized
culture began in Europe, which included exploiting peasants and privatizing the
commons. The Spanish and Portugal
foreign depredations centered on gold and land, which led directly to violence
and concentration of wealth.
Chapter
3, Cult of the Covenant
“…that
European colonists shoved aside [Chap. 2] a large network of small and large
nations [Chap. 1]” was consider providential by most of the colonists.
Chapter
4, Bloody Footprints
From
the earliest colonial wars to the present, the US has practiced “irregular
warfare”: “destroying Indigenous
villages and fields and intimidating and slaughtering enemy noncombatant
populations” (p. 58). “The chief
characteristic of irregular warfare is that of the extreme violence against
civilians” (p. 59).
Chapter
5, The Birth of a Nation
Chapter
6, The Last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson’s
White Republic
White Republic
Chapter
7, Sea to Shining Sea
Chapter
8, “:Indian Country”
Chapter
9, US Triumphalism and Peacetime Colonialism
Chapter
10, Ghost Dance Prophecy: A Nation Is Coming
Chap.
11, The Doctrine of Discovery
Conclusion,
The Future of the United States
Steiner Interviews
Dunbar-Ortiz, TheRealNews.com, Oct. 28, 2015
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12578 From Frank Scheide
THE MOVEMENT IS GROWING
From Columbus Day to
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: End Federal
Holiday Celebrating Columbus
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The following is
reposted from the website ofThe Red Nation. The
ANSWER Coalition encourages its members and supporters to take part in
Albuquerque's first Indigenous People's Day march to celebrate this important
victory.
Celebrate Albuquerque’s first Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
Monday, October 12, 2015 Downtown ABQ: First St. & Central Ave @ 5pm
Oct. 7, 2015, is
historic for Indigenous peoples of Albuquerque. The Albuquerque City Council
declared the celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day on
the second Monday of October, a day nationally recognized as
“Columbus Day.”
Albuquerque is
New Mexico’s largest city, and has the highest
concentration of Native people in the state.
City Council
President Rey Garduño—with guidance and input from The Red Nation and
community organizations—wrote, sponsored, and proposed the
initiative. Six councilors endorsed and three abstained. Those who
endorsed included Garduño, Ken Sanchez, Klarissa Peña, Isaac Benton, Brad
Winter, and Diane Gibson. Those against included Dan Lewis, Trudy Jones, and
Don Harris.
The Red Nation
sparked the campaign last February by leading an Abolish Columbus Day
demonstration, in coalition with other community groups, at the steps of City
Hall. Garduño spoke at February’s event, vowing support for a citywide
measure.
Albuquerque’s
struggle rose directly from the Native community’s demands and support from
non-Native groups, not from boardrooms. Through active coalition-building and
community engagement, Indigenous Peoples Day is now reality. Albuquerque
joins cities—such as Seattle, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Berkeley, Portland,
Lawrence, and Santa Cruz—that have also declared similar celebrations.
Many Native Nations
refuse to celebrate Columbus Day, and instead recognize Indigenous Peoples
Day or some other variation according to their specific histories. In New
Mexico, a majority of the nineteen Pueblo Nations acknowledge their own
nation-specific days. For example, the Pueblo of Pojoaque celebrates “T’owa
vi Thaa,” or “People’s Day.”
What the nation-wide Abolish Columbus Day
city campaigns have in common is the powerful and dynamic voice of urban
Native communities. According to Census numbers, about four of every five
Natives live off-reservation and about 44 percent of all Natives are under
the age of 25. About 55,000 thousand Native people call Albuquerque
home—35,000 of which are Diné (Navajo). Also represented in the city are 291
federally recognized Native Nations. The current Native movement, with strong
ties to homelands and traditions of activism, is increasingly young, urban,
and diverse, and recognizes its resounding impact for all Native Nations.
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Minneapolis city council voted to
change their [Columbus Day] holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day I
Sincerely, Frank
Scialabba
Exposes Krauthammer
George
Scialabba. “Floats Like a Vulture.” The
Nation (June 9-16, 2014). In a
review of Charles Krauthammer’s collection of essays, Things That Matter, Scialabba skewers Krauthammer for celebrating
the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in the New World, for minimizing the genocidal consequences of
the European conquest of the Americas, and for justifying them by exalting the
thriving civilizations of today.
Matika Wilber’s Photos of Native Americans
Thank you very much for your message. To me there is no
question of the past injustices which continue to affect Native Americans
today. I think you would be particularly impressed with this young woman,
Matika Wilber, who has set out to photograph every Native American tribe and
share the stories of the people who she meets:
http://www.matikawilbur.com/blog/blog/ted-talker
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Contents Indigenous
People of the America’s DAY Symposium and Resistance to the Western Conquest (Columbus
Day), Oct. 13, 2014.
SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY
History of the Conquest
New World Encyclopedia
See OMNI’s Newsletters: http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/09/us-westward-imperialism-newsletter-14.html
Indigenous Education during the
Occupation
Rhonda Craven,
et al., Education and Equity
Recent OMNI
Newsletters
IPAD
Newsletters 2012 and 2013
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